Snowman

Here is Piper's snowman I helped her make yesterday. She was so excited to go outside in the snow. It was the perfect type for packing too.

First Snow this Season

She would have played outside all day if I had let her.

Sledding

Not as cold this day, and I forgot her hat and extra socks at home. :(
She absolutely had to bring this stick home with us.

We took Piper sledding on Monday and Tuesday. The first park we went to was Garfield Park. It had a good hill to start off with for her. She had a lot of fun, and fell off only once. She didn't even get upset when she got snow in her face. She went down the hill a couple of times by herself, but most of the time she was with Daddy. That night it snowed more, and I had the day off from work for a snow day. This time we went to Paul Ruster Park, after hunting for it for quite some time. It was a taller hill, and even had a small ramp that Erick and her tried out once. It was really cold the second day, and she was bundled up very warm. She never complained about being cold though and loved it every time. Poor Erick had to climb up the hill so many times. Me, I just froze at the bottom. It was enough of a workout to walk to the hill. We met an older couple who were sledding too. They had to be in their 60's, but they were trooping up and down the hill with all the kids. Very inspiring!

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Snow!

Well, we haven't got much snow yet here, but it was enough to go play outside. Piper had fun on her sled, but Daddy was tired of pulling her around.

Blizzard Conditions

I actually remember the blizzard of '78, and it's funny that is how they are comparing this snowfall. I was in kindergarten, and my dad built me this huge snow fort in front of our house with tunnels and slides. The big slide went all the way up to the roof. There was a drift that covered the entire front of the house, and we had to go in and out the back door. This snow doesn't seem that bad to me. We got about 13 inches, but supposedly more is on the way. Schools are closed, and no one is going anywhere. I'm just happy we didn't get ice. Erick helped shovel out cars, and the dog had a blast playing in the snow with the other neighbors' pets.

I took Piper outside to play. She's been out in the snow before, but she wasn't too sure about it today. She definitely was not happy about falling over because it was so hard to walk.

Here is what she wore outside. She looked like the abdominable snowman, and reminded me of the weather commercial from channel 13 years ago.

This is the video montage of all the pictures and videos I took outside. If you are reading this on Babycenter, make sure you click on my blog link, otherwise you can't see the video.

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A Little Snow

It's been too cold to go play outside the last few days. They even cancelled school on Friday due to windchills in the negative 30's. It snowed and it seemed so sad to me that I couldn't take Piper outside to play. So I decided to bring the snow inside for her to experiment with. She had a lot of fun picking it up and letting it melt. She liked tasting it too, and Daddy even dipped some in orange juice. She thought that was tasty.

Winter Photos

It finally snowed and stuck to the ground. Piper is fascinated by this white stuff, and can't quite figure out what it is. She even got to try out her new snow boots. She hated them when I first put them on, but she thinks the zipper is fun to play with.